Update: “The Beaver”

For all of you who participated in the lengthy analysis we did here on the spec script “The Beaver” — with posts here, here, here, and here — an update from the Daily Variety:

Summit Entertainment has picked up dark comedy “The Beaver,” starring Mel Gibson.

Project, to be helmed by Jodie Foster, is slated to begin lensing in mid-September in New York.

And one of the big reasons Summit picked up the project?

“We bought the project because it’s told in one of the most unique voices ever,” said Erik Feig, Summit’s president of worldwide production and acquisitions.

“Unique voice.”
Hm.
Seem to remember somebody somewhere talking about…
Writers developing their voice.
Read that really recently…
Like…
Yesterday…
Here:

But there’s one thing you — and only you — can offer that nobody else can.
Voice.
That unique point-of-view you have…
Based on your experience…
Your life…
Your creativity.
It’s the thing that can cause your script…
To rise up out of that vesuvian pile of manuscripts…
In the cramped Hollywood apartment…
Or New York walk-up…
Of that overworked script reader…
And catch that reader’s attention.

Your voice is the way you approach a story…
How you tell it…
How you handle it…
Your unique take on storytelling.

Bottom line re The Beaver:
The script’s surprising story concept and its unique voice…
Won out over fears about making such a dark comedy.

Congratulations to the script’s writer Kyle Killen.

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